Fruit-jar holder.



A. SOHAUMBURG.

FRUIT JAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 313.24, 1910.

Patented June 20, 1911.

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ANNA SCHAUMBURG, 0F OLALLA, VIASHINGTON.

FRUIT-JAR HOLDER.

Application filed February 24, 1910.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ANNA SCI-TAUMBURG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Olalla, in the county of Kitsap and State of Washington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit Jar Holders,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to holders for glass fruit jars; and has for itsobject the provision of a simple and inexpensive domestic device forconveniently manipulating said jars when sterilizing or preservingfruit, vegetables, or the like, by the various processes where heat isemployed.

A well known method of canning fruit and vegetables is by inserting theminto glass jars in a raw state and to thus thoroughly cook them byplacing the jars in a covered vessel containing a small amount of waterwhich is caused to boil rapidly and to generate a hot vapor thateffectively sterilizes the contents of the jars, whereupon the latter inthe case of fruit, are filled with a sugar syrup and tightly sealed. Ithas been found that the chief difficulty attendant upon the said methodresides in the frequent breakage of the jars caused by setting thelatter upon the vessels bottom where the ebullition of the rapidlyboiling water j ostles the jars one with another often causing damage.Also the differences in temperature about the jars is a frequent sourceof loss, as the jar resting directly upon the vessels bottom tends tocause an excessive accumulation of heat thereunder. The abovedifliculties have been partially overcome in the past by the employmentof strips of wood laid directly upon the vessel bottom or by a layer ofstraw or the like, to afford means to equalize the temperature.

To overcome the above stated and other objections, I provide a devicethat retains the jar above the bottom of the steam-vessel sufficientlyto insure an equality of temperature thereabout; that affords ayieldable shield about the jar to guard against giving or receivingshocks likely to cause damage; and wherewith is provided a means toplace or withdraw the jars from the hot steam chamber without personaldiscomfort or risk of loss of contents of the jars.

Vith the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in thenovel construc tion, adaptation and combination of parts, as will behereinafter described and claimed.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1911.

Serial n0. 545,688.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevational view of an embodiment of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.

The device is preferably formed of wire as giving the lighterconstruction and one more readily accessible to the hot liquids andvapors to which exposed; however. a stamped metal structure wouldaccomplish all the functions of the specific embodiment herewith shownand described and I par ticularly state that I desire to protect allequivalents of such a nature or that may fall within the scope of theinvention as claimed.

Referring to said drawings, the holder is formed of wire which is bentin vertical directions to afford a plurality of doubled portions 5 and6. Said doubled portions of the wire are respectively disposedalternately and symmetrically and comprise a circular frame of which theformer 5 extends downwardly and terminates in a common horizontal planein rounded lower ends 5' to afford supporting legs, at least three innumber, to the structure. The doubled portions 6 are bent inwardly at 6in radial directions and in a horizontal plane to provide supports 7 fora ar 8. Intermediately connecting the respective portions 5 and 6 at thetop, excepting as hereinafter stated, the wire is bent in horizontaldirections as at 9 and t-hereat is offset outwardly from the circularplane in which extend the said vertical doubled portions to safeguardthe jar held thereon against contact with objects likely to injure same.Upon opposite sides of the holder, in each case intermediate two of thedoubled portions 5 and 6 the wire is extended upwardly at 10 andterminates in a loop 11. The extensions 10 are adapted to afford meansfor connection with a bail 12 and are each provided with a tubular metalclip 18 which serves to reinforce and lend them rigidity. Said bail isformed of wire and its ends 14 and 15 are hingedly connected to therespective ends of said loops 11 by being threaded through the latterand are bent to provide interfering extremities 14 and 15 one uponeither side to limit the amount of vibratile movement in the bail. It isdesirable that the bail be constantly in an elevated position to bereadily grasped and to prevent its becoming overheated and alsodesirable that it swing to a limited distance to either side to allow ofthe convenient manipulation of the jar and the care of its contents.

The device is employed by placing a glass or other jar in the receptacleformed by said circular frame and the bottom supports 7. The jar maythen be lifted by the bail 12 into the cooking vessel where it may receive a high degree of heat Without danger of breakage as the iselevated above the bottom of the vessel and the heat thereby equallydistributed about the exterior of the jar. The jar is also protectedfrom collision with other like ars by the Wire frame surrounding it andparticularly by the offset portions 9 of the frame.

The jar holders described are of inexpensive construction and aredesirably employed in quantities sufficient to utilize all the spaceavailable in the vessel in which the cooking is accomplished.

Having described my invention, What I claim is- A circular Wire framecomprising pairs of vertically disposed parallel spaced members 5-5 and6 6, the pairs of members 55 and 6-6 being spaced from each other andthe members of each pair 55 and 6-6 connected together at their lowerends by a rounded portion, each of said pairs of members 66 having aninwardly-extending angularly disposed lower portion forming the bottomof the frame and the lower portion of each pair of members 5-5constituting supports for the frame, certain of the members of the pairsof members 55 at their tops connected to certain of the members of thepairs of members 6-6 by segment-shaped oif-set' members and the other ofsaid members of said pairs of members 5-5 connected to the other of saidmembers of the pairs of members 6-6 by upright members projecting abovesaid offset members, said upright members arranged in pairs and themembers of each pair connected together at their tops, and a bailattached to the upper end of said upright members.

ANNA SCHAUMBURG.

Witnesses H. BARNES, A. B. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

